Nice little parallelism

[heather the buzzard]

No: HPFGUIDX 133706

Wow... I'm away from the PC for a few hours and I find *277* posts to 
catch up on... there's no way I can get them all done tonight, and I 
just wanted to dash off a cute little thing I just noticed while 
starting my first re-read... so to quote many already, "Apologies if 
this has already been brought up but..." (I certainly have not seen this 
mentioned yet in the several hundred posts I HAVE got through in the 
last 2 days)

When DD and Harry first set out after leaving the Dursley's, DD tells 
Harry to have his wand at the ready, but that they're not likely to be 
attacked tonight.  Harry asks why, and DD answers "You are with me."  
(Cdn edition p. 59).

And of course, we all know the extremely touching line when they're on 
their way back to Hogwarts after cave, that DD is not worried because "I 
am with you." (Cdn edition p. 540)

What a beautiful, beautiful turnaround, demonstrating the 'powershift' 
that has happened and is happening... the transfer of importance, the 
source of safety and protection, from DD onto Harry to get ready for book 7.

We've had many mentions of the tears and heartaches caused by the beauty 
of DD's line at the end... it just struck me as all the more meaningful 
given that (IMO obviously deliberate) foreshadowing and turnaround from 
the early part of the book.

heather the buzzard